Chairs and a Long Table cast members Julie Fitzpatrick, Julienne Hanzelka Kim, Jeena Yi, Ron Domingo and Moses Villarama are photobombed by Jojo Gonzalez after the final performance of their show at the Clurman on Theater Row in New York on November 22, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang

It was a Magno Rubio reunion for Ron Domingo and Jojo Gonzalez. Photo by Lia Chang

Jojo Gonzalez, playwrights Linda Faigao Hall and Kitty Mei Mei Chan were among the packed final matinee performance of Ma-Yi Theater Company’s world premiere of Han Ong’s latest work, CHAIRS AND A LONG TABLE at the Clurman Theater at Theatre Row in New York on November 22, 2014.

Chairs and a Long Table cast members Julie Fitzpatrick, Julienne Hanzelka Kim, Jeena Yi, Ron Domingo and Moses Villarama were congratulated by Jojo Gonzalez, Kitty Mei Mei Chen and Linda Faigao Hall after the final performance of their show at the Clurman on Theater Row in New York on November 22, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang

CHAIRS AND A LONG TABLE follows a group of Asian American actors in New York City as they prepare to attend a conference in Los Angeles addressing racial discrimination in the casting of a classic Chinese play, where the two lead characters have been cast with non-Asian actors.

MA-YI THEATER COMPANY won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for its critically- acclaimed production of THE WONG KIDS IN THE SECRET OF THE SPACE CHUPACABRA GO! last season. Founded in 1989 and now celebrating its 26th anniversary season, MA-YI is a Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning, Off- Broadway not-for-profit organization whose primary mission is to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers. It is currently led by Ralph B. Peña (Artistic Director) and Jorge Z. Ortoll (Executive Director). Since its founding, Ma-Yi has distinguished itself as one of the country’s leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today.

Ron Domingo, Jojo Gonzalez and Moses Villarama. Photo by Lia Chang

Its numerous acclaimed productions include last season’s BIKE AMERICA, JESUS IN INDIA, Qui Nguyen’s THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G (with Vampire Cowboys) and SOUL SAMURAI (with Vampire Cowboys), Mike Lew’s MICROCRISIS and the revival of Ralph B. Peña’s FLIPZOIDS. Other productions include: RESCUE ME by Michi Barall, Lloyd Suh’s AMERICAN HWANGAP and THE CHILDREN OF VONDERLY and THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO. Through successful programs such as the Writers Lab, Ma-Yi emboldens a new generation of Asian American artists to voice their experiences, while developing a steady stream of quality new works by Asian American playwrights for its own performing repertory. New works developed at the Writers Lab have gone on to successful productions around the country, at such theaters as Victory Gardens, Laguna Playhouse, Long Wharf Theater, Woolly Mammoth, and the Actors Theater of Louisville, to name a few. Ma-Yi Theater Company productions have earned 10 OBIE Awards, numerous Henry Hewes Award nominations, a Drama Desk nomination for Best Play and the Special Drama Desk Award for “more than two decades of excellence and for nurturing Asian-American voices in stylistically varied and engaging theater.”